China is the only country for which LSE's representation is explicitly managed by the External Relations Division logo (see LSE China). This signifies how important China is to LSE. LSE Director Howard Davies said: 'At LSE there are more than 500 undergraduate and postgraduate students from mainland China and around 300 from the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong.’ 800 Chinese students represent about 10 per cent of the total student body. LSE has an increasing number of activities in China which can be seen from the projects, e.g. the LSE - Peking University Summer School, LSE-PKU Double Degree in International Affairs, and LSE-Fudan Double Degree in Global Media and Communications, etc.

However, as a discipline-oriented institution LSE doesn't focus on area studies, thus, China studies, as such, does not exist at LSE. In responding to LSE's innovative interdisciplinary methodological lecture series 'Thinking like a social scientist' we developed the approach of 'advanced studies on China'. We make a distinction between 'China studies' and the term 'Advanced studies on China' which describes the discipline-based social scientific studies on China (see LSE advanced studies on China). In order to advance studies on China at LSE and to continue its mission 'to enhance its position as the leading academic centre of international excellence in the social sciences' we have created 'China in comparative perspective'. By this we mean the use of China as a comparator to compare, contemporarily and historically, with other countries or regions in interdisciplinary, multiple engagements, cross institutions, and translational approaches for advancing general knowledge. We are also developing an optional course 'Introduction to Advanced Studies on China' which will cover methodology and more general topics.

The innovative idea of 'advanced studies on China' is inspirited by LSE's interdisciplinary methodological lecture series 'thinking like a social scientist' and the National Institute of Advanced Study on Social Science at Fudan University (IAS-Fudan). The CCPN's advanced study on China is a part of the LSE advanced studies on China.

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